Three Ways to Optimize the Nutrient Density of Your Diet |
| Posted by Administrator (blb) on Oct 19 2010 |
| Newsletter Articles Blog >> group one |
Three Ways to Optimize the Nutrient Density of Your Diet
Dr. Joel Fuhrman, author of Eat to Live and Disease-Proof Your Child, is encouraging health-conscious Americans to consider becoming--not necessarily vegetarian--but "nutritarian." His The Nutritarian Handbook encourages readers to focus on the amount of micronutrients (vitamins) available for each calorie a food item contains. The three points below will get you started on a more nutrient-rich, disease-resistant path.
1. Eat foods with the highest "nutrient bang for calorie buck:" Fuhrman's top scoring foods are: collard, mustard and turnip greens; kale, watercress, bok choy, spinach, broccoli rabe, Chinese/Napa cabbage, brussels sprouts, swiss chard.
Baby bok choy cut in half and stir fried in olive oil with garlic, lemon and soy sauce pairs wonderfully with salmon which, along with tuna, scores high on Fuhrman's nutrient-per-calorie scale.
2. Eat one large salad and one double portion of steamed green vegetables every day. Also shoot for ½ cup of beans in soup, three servings of fruit and ½ cup of nuts daily.
3. Start to view meat as more of a condiment or small side dish rather than a main course. Like other highly respected diet doctors (e.g. Ornish, Weil), Fuhrman frowns on excessive or even moderate consumption of red meat.
The Nutritarian Handbook explains that "given half a chance, the body will heal itself," as long as highly nutritious foods are fueling it. Prevalent diseases such as migraines, heart disease, diabetes, chronic fatigue and cancer all have diet choices at their root. Fuhrman has found that people who pair a nutritarian diet with regular exercise reverse these ailments, even without pharmaceuticals.
Last changed: Dec 15 2010 at 12:38 PM
BackComments
| None Found |
Add Comment